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Pretty much everything you do often enough will be automated away from conscious thought.

It ends up in a weird situation where if someone asks what the keyboard binding for, say, inserting a row into a org-mode table, I wouldn't be able to answer. Something with maybe a c in it, and a '-', not sure? Yet, once in the situation that needs it, the fingers move by themselves.

Also related, musicians don't spend two seconds figuring out how to play a note.



Musicians also regularly play all the notes on their instrument. There are many once/week tasks that you’ll spend more time trying to remember the shortcut you used last week than just grabbing the rodent.




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